cruel
英 [krʊəl]
美 ['kruəl]
- adj. 殘酷的，殘忍的；使人痛苦的，讓人受難的；無情的，嚴酷的
助記提示
1. 諧音“酷吏哦，酷戮哦”-----殘酷地殺戮哦。
2. 諧音“酷奴哦”-----殘酷地奴役哦。
3. 諧音“可戮哦、渴戮哦”-----渴望殺戮哦。
中文詞源
英文詞源
- cruel
- cruel: [13] Aptly, cruelty and crudeness are closely linked etymologically. Cruel comes via Old French cruel from Latin crūdēlis, a relative of Latin crūdus (which actually meant ‘cruel’ as well as ‘raw’ and ‘bloody’). Both come ultimately from an Indo-European base which also produced English raw, Greek kréas ‘flesh’ (whence English creosote and pancreas), and Old Slavic kruvi ‘blood’. (Crude is a 14thcentury borrowing direct from Latin.)
=> creosote, crude, pancreas, raw - cruel (adj.)
- early 13c., from Old French cruel (12c.), earlier crudel, from Latin crudelis "rude, unfeeling; cruel, hard-hearted," related to crudus "rough, raw, bloody" (see crude). Related: Cruelly. Latin medial -d- began to disappear 10c. in French: compare chance/cadentia, cheoir/cadere, joyeux/gaudiosus, juif/judaeus, moyen/medianus, obéir/obedire, séance/sedentia.
雙語例句
- 1. He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.
- 他仍然因出身低微而被人無情嘲笑。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners bending their legs.
- 這些殘酷的刑具是用來阻止犯人彎腿的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Marion's father counter-attacked by saying that Blaze's claims were cruel and untrue.
- 瑪麗昂的父親反擊說布拉茲的說法冷酷無情，根本是在撒謊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The detainees are often held in cruel and inhuman conditions.
- 被拘留者的關押環境常常惡劣嚴酷、很不人道。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The wind was not as sharp and cruel as it had been.
- 風不像剛才那麽凜冽和凶猛了。
來自柯林斯例句